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Dermatoglyph Groups Kinh Vietnamese to Mon-Khmer

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Kinh is the largest population in Vietnam. It belongs to Mon-Khmer linguistically, but there is no last word for its origin. There are three hypotheses for the homeland of Kinh. The formation of Kinh population is also hypothesized to have occurred by one of two different modes. One is demic diffusion of Mon-Khmer, the other is Daic population assimilated by Mon-Khmer. Population studies such as dermatoglyphics can be used to determine the relevant mode. Fingerprints, palm prints, and sole prints of 135 individuals from Kinh populations all over Vietnam were collected in this project. Principle component analysis and dendrogram analysis were done based on the dermatoglyphic data of populations from south China and Vietnam. Kinh Vietnamese was found to be quite close to Deang and Blang, which belong to the Mon-Khmer group, but are not closely related to the Daic populations. This study supports the demic diffusion mode of the formation of the Kinh population. The interaction with the Daic population was never a significant course in the formation of Kinh.

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The authors would like to thank those teachers and students of Guangxi Medical University and Vietnam Hue Medical College for giving their dermatoglyphic data and staff of the Anatomy Department, Hue Medical College for helping in collecting samples.

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  1. MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Hui Lĭ, Zhendong Qin, Yifan Zhang, Xu Cheng, Ji Qian & Li Jin

  2. Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, SHM-I-347, New Haven, CT, 06520-8005, USA

    Hui Lĭ & Michael Donnelly

  3. Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Experimental Center for Medical Research, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, 530021, China

    Shangling Pan, Dinhbinh Tran, Ruixing Yin & Weixiong Lin

  4. Huê University Medical College, Hue, Vietnam

    Dinhbinh Tran, Vantung Hoang & Vanlinh Pham

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Lĭ, H., Pan, S., Donnelly, M. et al. Dermatoglyph Groups Kinh Vietnamese to Mon-Khmer. Intl Jnl Anthropology 21, 295–306 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11599-007-9033-6

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